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Hollywood film director Neil LaBute has sung Heavy Rain's praises, and said he hopes other games will continue down this more "sophisticated" path.

Infinity Ward community man Robert Bowling tweeted overnight that Modern Warfare 2 has racked up a whopping 25 million online players.

Sony Santa Monica's God of War III cost a massive $44 million to make, according to director of product development John Hight.

God of War III originally had an epilogue that had to be cut during development, according to senior producer Steve Caterson.

Stuart Black, co-creator of Criterion's superb game Black, is making a new first-person shooter for Codemasters called Bodycount.

Square Enix has sent out a reminder that Final Fantasy XIII goes on sale in the US and Europe today on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Microsoft plans to show "the full line-up" of Project Natal software at E3 in June.

Valve has said that Left 4 Dead owners on Windows and Mac will be able to join forces or go head to head cross-platform in multiplayer.

Civilization may be so wonderful that we're even prepared to tolerate its use of a "z", but it's hard to imagine building on something that was already so complete. Hard for us, anyway, but then we're not making it.

Given that it has the lowest petty crime statistics in the civilised world, Japan's portrayal in the Yakuza series, as a thug-infested cesspool of extreme physical violence, certainly provides an amusing contrast from the endlessly polite reality. Perhaps the whole of Japanese society is secretly fantasising about stoving each other's faces in with bicycles. It would explain a lot.

When Civilization IV came out - and I'm using the z spelling with the same counter-intuitive courtesy that allows me to refer to drag acts using "she" - it was difficult to say, "Hey! Everyone! This is the big new thing that makes Civ IV the one game in the series that'll make you guff up your lungs, in a way none of the others previously did!"

Valve has confirmed its not entirely secret plans to bring Steam to the Mac, and revealed the extent to which the Apple platform now weighs on the studio's thinking.

Although I doubt you could count on Kratos to guide you through your Classics GCSE, it's hard to think of many other games that understand their source material as well as God of War. Sony's audience, like Homer's, is looking for the release that violent heroics can bring, an escape from drudgery into a vivid world where the emotions haven't been simplified so much as heightened.

Nintendo's patented a design for a new sort of game cartridge.

Another Lips game is being cranked out on 2nd April, this time in the shape of Lips: I Love the '80s.

The First World War is a bit of a white elephant for the gaming industry. Despite the abhorrently high body count, the wealth of interesting battlegrounds and the advent of both tanks and military aircraft, no one outside the strategy genre has ever really given the "War to end all wars" a fair depiction.

Update: Ubisoft has blamed the outage on outside attacks.

Ubisoft has blamed problems with its controversial digital rights management solution for PC games on outside attacks.

2K Games will release the first batch of BioShock 2 DLC on Thursday.

Rope-wrapping iPhone game Zen Bound is being recreated for iPad as Zen Bound 2.

According to DICE, the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has the most players at the moment.

British developer Bizarre Creations wants downloadable content for upcoming racer Blue to be "massive".

Pity Koei, originator and now final bastion of the pseudo-historical battlefield brawler. Its flagship Dynasty Warriors, at one time the biggest-selling series in all of Japan, is viewed by most of the Western world with disdain or, worse, indifference. Once notable for pushing more polygons around an environment than just about anything else and tasking its player to carve their way, often single-handedly, through overwhelming, spear-wielding odds, the series fast settled into a rhythm of bi-annual updates that, on the surface at least, have done little to freshen the formula.

EA's newcomer Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has topped the UK All-Formats chart.

Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day has announced that he is leaving the organisation to pursue a music career.

id Software and its new corporate overlords Bethesda Softworks have announced the dates for QuakeCon 2010.

5th Cell is working on a new Scribblenauts DS game for release this autumn.

Update: Valve's Doug Lombardi has told Eurogamer that the game's due for PC and Xbox 360.

The Xbox Live Code of Conduct has been updated to allow gay people to display sexual orientation in gamertags.

Portal 2 features a separate two-player co-operative campaign, playable over the internet, and new gameplay features include physics-changing paint.